8 sentences with 'consumed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word consumed and other words derived from it.
• « The quantity and quality of beverages to be consumed during sport is not always given the true importance it deserves. »
• « In 68 CE, Nero blamed Christians for the huge fire that consumed much of the city of Rome, and hundreds of Christians were rounded up and slaughtered in the arena. »
• « Not only did France lose much of its empire in Canada, the Caribbean and India to the British, but the state also accumulated a huge debt burden that consumed 60 per cent of tax revenues each year in interest payments. »
• « What changed was simply that Britain ran out of forests. Because of the need for wood and coal for heating, as well as wood for construction (especially shipbuilding; the British navy consumed a great deal of wood in construction and repairs), Britain was forced to import huge quantities of wood from abroad in the late 17th century. »
• « With cheap and fast railways and steamship transport, not only could food travel hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from where it was grown or caught to where it was consumed, but the daily diet itself underwent profound changes. »